Comment 5 for bug 873409

I "upgraded" from 10.04 to 11.10 -- really a fresh install, preserving only the /home and /boot partitions, and reformatting /var and / as btrfs. So here's my disk setup:

 /boot 152Mb as ext4
 swap
 LVM with
    Group1--Root (6.6G/btrfs)
    Group1--Home (23G/ext4)
    Group1--Var (2.4G/btrfs)

I got through the install no problem, but am now seeing problems when I try to upgrade linux kernel headers using the Update Manager:

     linux-headers-generic: Depends: linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic but it is not installed

and, at the suggestion of Update Manager, I run "apt-get install -f", and I get:

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic_3.0.0-14.23_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to install new version of `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.0.0-14-generic/include/config/mfd/timberdale.h': No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error

I have 113M free on /boot (pretty sure /boot is not involved) and 2.4G free on the root partition.

Have not tried the workarounds mentioned by Jan.